The second and final starting day of the 10-year anniversary edition of the Unibet Open Main Event kicks off at 11 a.m. local time at the extravagant JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel in the centre of the Romanian capital. December 1st is also the Great Union Day, the national holiday of Romania, and a big field is expected for Day 1b of the €1,100 Main Event.
Day 1a attracted a field of 167 entries of which 39 advanced to Day 2 on Saturday December 2nd 2017 and a much bigger field is expected for today. Amongst others, the defending champion of the event will take his seat in Traian Bostan. The local defeated a 603-entry strong field back in 2016 to lift the trophy and claim a payday of €100,000 in the record-breaking event.
Other notables expected to join the action today are the Unibet Poker ambassadors Ian Simpson, Dara O'Kearney, David Lappin and Rauno Tahvonen along with most participants of the eSports Battle Royale VII and an armada of online and live qualifiers. Same as the previous starting day, a total of 11 levels of 60 minutes each are scheduled and all participants receive 30,000 in chips. There is a break after the levels two, four, six, seven and nine with a 60-minute dinner break after level seven, the registration remains open until the start of level seven as well.
Day 1 level structure
Level
Duration
Small Blind
Big Blind
Ante
1
60min
50
100
-
2
60min
100
200
25
3
60min
150
300
25
4
60min
200
400
50
5
60min
300
60075
6
60min
400
800
100
7
60min
500
1,000
100
8
60min
600
1,200
200
9
60min
800
1,600
200
10
60min
1,000
2,000
300
11
60min
1,200
2,400
400
The €2,200 High Roller played down to a winner last night as well and Olvedo Heinze emerged victorious in heads-up against Katsuhiro Muto, having flopped a straight with versus on a board of to eliminate Muto. Heinze scored a crucial double through Eric Wasylenko with aces versus ace-queen and sent Dorin Rauta to the rail as last man without anything to show for when winning a flip with nines versus ace-jack suited. Heinze entered the final table as the chip leader and took home the lion's share of the €192,060 prize pool in a field of 99 entries.
€2,200 High Roller Final Result
Place
Winner
Country
Prize (EUR)
1
Olvedo Heinze
Netherlands
€54,955
2
Katsuhiro Muto
Japan
€34,135
3
Jason Gray
Australia
€23,540
4
Eric Wasylenko
Canada
€17,440
5
Mateusz Moolhuizen
Netherlands
€13,415
6
Neculai Macovei
Romania
€10,320
7
Dan Chisu
Romania
€8,255
8
Radu Danut
Romania
€6,605
9
Andrei Boghean
Romania
€5,505
10
Dara O'Kearney
Ireland
€4,785
11
Florin Elisei
Romania
€4,785
12
Mihai Niste
Romania
€4,160
13
Elvis Petcu
Romania
€4,160
The PokerNews live reporting team will provide all the action from the tables here in Bucharest until a winner is crowned and you can also follow the live-streamed feature table on the Twitch channel of Unibet Poker.
With around 14,000 in the middle and the turn showing , Sorin Constantinescu bet 3,000 and Ferenc Pal moved all in for 11,575 from one seat over in the big blind. Constantinescu called with the far superior stack.
After a raise to 800 by Mihai Manole and a call by Orestis Kanakopoulos, David Lappin called on the button and Henrik Jeppsson in the small blind three-bet to 3,400. Unibet Poker eSports Star Kevin Teller folded in the big blind and Manole as well as Lappin called. The flop fell and Jeppsson checked, Manole bet 5,000 and Lappin called before Jeppsson folded.
The turn was checked through and the on the river brought a check by Manole. Lappin moved all in for effectively 18,000, as that's what Manole had left, and the Romanian folded. "I think I have to show because you are here," Lappin said and flashed for quads!
Mateusz Moolhuizen is no longer in the running to make it three Unibet Open Main Event titles here in Bucharest after his nut flush draw failed to get there against the two pair of Dumitru Pora. His lucky charm, the unicorn, went back to Marion Adriaans and a copy of the unicorn sits with his better half Dehlia de Jong.
Kaarel Lepik called a raise by Tzipi Fraid to see a flop of and Fraid continued for 1,500, Lepik called on the small blind and a third player in the hand folded. The remaing stack of Fraid then went into the middle after the turn and Lepik quickly looked her up with for a straight.
Fraid had for top set and the on the river was a blank to award the pot to the 2017 Unibet Open Copenhagen champion.
Thijs Molendijk raised to 1,000 and Aan Widmann three-bet to 2,700, which the hijack called. Out of the small blind, Simeon Todorov squeezed to 13,500 and action folded back to Widmann, who moved all in for 17,000 in total. The hijack folded and Todorov called it off with the superior stack.
Alan Widmann:
Simeon Todorov:
The flop gave Todorov an additional flush draw and the fell on the turn. A blank on the river was of no help and the Unibet Poker eSports Star was eliminated.
In a three-way all in it was former big stack Sorin Constantinescu who was the player at risk for his last 16,750 and the other two players involved were Robert Ionescu with and Joeri Moerman with .
They both flopped top pair but it was no good, as Constantinescu's made a set on flop and a full house on the turn of the board .
On the turn of , the above-average stacks of Vladimir Velikov and Kevin Teller collided and the former was at risk with pocket queens. Teller showed and the river was the blank .
While Velikov took his belongings and left the seat, Teller asked the dealer "can I take it?" referring to the stack that formerly belonged to Velikov. That was confirmed and the eSports Star implemented the chips into his growing stack.
In a battle of the blinds, the board showed and Samuiel Stan checked, then called a bet of 9,000 by Ian Simpson. The river completed the board and Stan checked again. Simpson moved all in for 15,300 and the Romanian reluctantly called with to see Simpson turn over for an airball, seat open for Unibet Poker ambassador.
Within a few minutes and on different tables, €2,200 High Roller champion Olvedo Heinze was sent to the rail while Unibet Poker ambassador Dara O'Kearney earned a massive boost to his stack when busting Elvis Petcu.
Heinze was all in before the flop with and Marius Gicovanu called with the . The flop was quite deadly for Heinze and there was no runner runner miracle on the turn and river.
Petcu got his stack in with pocket jacks and O'Kearney had him dominated with the . The board came .
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to eliminate Muto. Heinze scored a crucial double through Eric Wasylenko with aces versus ace-queen and sent Dorin Rauta to the rail as last man without anything to show for when winning a flip with nines versus ace-jack suited. Heinze entered the final table as the chip leader and took home the lion's share of the €192,060 prize pool in a field of 99 entries.
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